Table of Contents


This page includes a list of external tools that come with V-Ray.

Overview

The following tools and utilities come installed with V-Ray for SketchUp. For more information about each tool, see its individual page.


V-Ray Standalone Command Line Options

The V-Ray Standalone tool is a command-line rendering tool supporting V-Ray's native .vrscene file format.

Denoiser Tool

A command-line utility that can be used to denoise still images or animations outside of SketchUp.

Irradiance Map Viewer

The Irradiance Map viewer tool allows you to navigate around a 3D projected version of a scene to view where GI samples were taken during the rendering process.

OBJ GEO PLY to .vrmesh converter

The ply2vrmesh command-line utility can convert .ply, .obj, .bin, .geo, .bgeo, .hclassic, .bhclassic, .abc, and .vrscene files to .vrmesh files for rendering with V-Ray through V-Ray Proxy Objects.

V-Ray Image to EXR Converter

The V-Ray Image to EXR Converter converts .vrimg files to EXR format so the render elements may be loaded into compositing software, where they can be used for Back-to-Beauty compositing or for other adjustments and fine-tuning at the render element level.

V-Ray mesh viewer

The V-Ray Mesh Viewer is a tool that previews V-Ray mesh and alembic files. It can display both static and animated meshes.

Plugininfo Tool

The plugininfo tool generates documentation for all V-Ray plugins. It can be used to list all V-Ray plugins or to display a detailed information for a specific one by using the commands from the Options table.

Filter Generator Tool

The Filter Generator is a tool for composing filters (HDR images in *.hdr format). It is specially designed to produce filters for the Lens Effects.



Misc

V-Ray for SketchUp on macOS contains a config file that can be used to set environment variables specifically for it.

Its location is:

/Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/V-Ray\ for\ SketchUp/extensions/config.json

If multiple variables are written, they need to be separated by commas.